Listeners Talking About Their Genetic Lottery Win

Author Mike O'Brian

June 19th 9:59 AM

A scientist looking through a microscope at DNA in a labratory.

It’s not something that pops up very often, but this morning listeners were talking about the “genetic” lottery they won! It could be anything from still having hair to good nails.

The Mike & Carla Morning Show covered it all…Mike O’Brian of course started with the “hair” lottery. He has a full and strong head of hair. He keeps it a little shorter than he used to, but nonetheless it’s all there.

Carla Rea on the other hand talked about her strong nails. She also had another “genetic” lottery win she talked about, but you have to listen to the segment to hear about that one.

What Was The Genetic Lottery You Won

Now, BuzzFeed followed up with an article on this very subject from a thread on Reddit. It covered everything from great eye sight to the sleep button. Being able to fall asleep with in seconds of hitting the pillow.

Listeners phoning in and even texting in did the same thing. From height to hair and one woman even having the same genetic win as Carla as a young girl.

Now, one listener talked about his very important “genetic” win because of his parents. In fact it only happens to about one in every ten thousand. Truly an amazing win for this guy and glad he shared his story.

On the flipside, we thought it was just as courageous for one guy to admit how he missed his genetic win. Short and bald…he got nothing! But, he had a great sense of humor about it and was happy to call in and share!

It was quite the topic this morning and it was nice to have everyone share their story. You should truly spend a couple of minutes to listen to. If something comes to mind with you as you listen, feel free to call in and share!

Mike O’Brian is the Program Director and Morning Show host on 96.3 KKLZ in Las Vegas, along with Carla Rea. He has been with the Beasley Media Group for almost 23 years. Mike was named one of the “Best Program Directors In America” by Radio Ink magazine. Over the years, “The Mike & Carla Morning Show” have been presented with a number of proclamations for their work in the community and numerous awards. Having lived in Las Vegas for over 35 years, he writes articles on living in Las Vegas, sports, and odd stories happening within the state of Nevada. Mike is the host of the morning show and program director of 96.3 KKLZ/Las Vegas. He has been doing mornings in Las Vegas for the past 38 years. Over the years, he has hosted a numerous amount of community events and has been the P.A. announcer for a number of sports teams in Las Vegas. He has written on living in Las Vegas, the sports teams here, as well as odd & little-known facts about Las Vegas & Nevada.

Here's How You Know If You're The 'Favorite Child'

Were you the “favorite child” in your family? It’s been said the most parents absolutely have a favorite child, but most *smart* parents won’t just tell you who that child is.

It could be the oldest, it could be the youngest – it probably isn’t the middle child, though. KIDDING! Well – now there’s supposedly a sneaky new way to get it out of your parents.

Over the past few months, there’s been a silly trend on TikTok (what – a silly trend on TikTok??), where kids log out of Netflix, and then they ask their parents for the password. If one of the kids’ names is in the password, they’re determined to be the “password child,” and their parents’ secret FAVORITE child!

There were some funny responses online: One person said, “I’m an only child and I’m not even the password child.” Another said, “My sister is the password child, but I’M the one who they come to when THEY forget the password.” And in the words of another: “Nothing hurts worse than getting replaced as password child by the dog.” Ouch!

Here’s the video that started it all.

Others said that they’re the password child for one of their parents but not the other. And one person joked about their family being thrown into chaos when the password was: “TheAdopted1.” Ahh – you have to love parents with a sense of humor!

Now, if your parents’ password ISN’T a child’s name, and is 47 random characters, you won’t know who their favorite child is. And you’ll become the least favorite child for logging them out, because now they have to reset their password, and they can’t remember their username either. But on the plus side, your parents are far less likely to lose your inheritance by being hacked, that’s for sure!

On the flip side of it all, here’s how you know you are NOT the favorite child in the family…

They used the batteries from your smoke alarm for the remote.

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